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Exhibition Objects

Welcome to Exploring Objects. Here you can explore the rich collection of objects that have been unearthed from the Creswell Heritage Area. To find an object, type in the words that best describe what you are looking for and click ‘Search’

Leaf-shaped point

This flint point is probably between 40,000 and 30,000 years old and is likely to have been used as a spearhead. It was found during the Victorian excavation in 1875 in Robin Hood Cave near to the west entrance.

The point has been made by the gradual removal of small flakes to give a leaf-shaped outline and a straight longitudinal profile. The pattern of damage on similar flint points from other sites, and their size and weight, suggest that they were used as heads for spears. Weapons of this type appear to be associated with the earliest part of the British Upper Palaeolithic. This is about the time when the Neanderthal population of Europe was being replaced by anatomically modern humans and, at present, there is little evidence to suggest which group might have made and used leaf points.